The
above is just a few of a number of persons likely to be investigated in
respect of certain cases brought against Wealden Action Group members, on
the instigation or encouragement of known Masons, councillors,
or planning officers, many of which are themselves Masons.

Full
details of this case will be available for publishing in newspapers from
25 April 2008 subject to confirmation. This will include full
disclosure of all factors relied on photographs of the officers concerned,
the CPS staff, expert witnesses, teachers and the subjects of the
allegations, the defendant, alleged victim and family and others, video
footage, transcripts and an exclusive from the defendant. The case is to
be heard in September 2007 at a Crown Court in Sussex, which we will
advise of closer to the time.

Newspapers
are warned that interim, they should be exceptionally careful about
reporting this matter, due to a Section 39 Order. Those in attendance at
Court will already know the identity of the girl and that a Not Guilty
plea has been entered on all counts.

Armed
with the name of the girl, newspaper reporters will be able to investigate
the matter for themselves, for the purposes of balanced reporting at the
appropriate time, but should take special care where allegations are
already on the table with the police investigating the possibility that
such reporting is likely to reveal the identity of the girl concerned to
the general public.

This
case looks set to be every bit as exciting as the BBC 'The Verdict' drama.
It is bound to raise a whole raft of questions as to social issues, how
the system works, who it protects, who it doesn't protect and what might
have gone wrong within the family concerned. Just who the victim is in
these cases is sometimes hard to define.

As
for the players, what will happen to them? How will this affect their
lives, their family and future, and what are the lesson to be learned?
See below for details.

CONVICTION
QUASHED OVER 'MADE UP' VAMPIRE CLAIM

A
man who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2004 after a teenager
falsely alleged he repeatedly raped her in "vampire" rituals had
his conviction quashed yesterday.

Leon
Benjamin Forde, 21, of Lincoln, was jailed 18 months ago after the girl
claimed he subjected her to a sex ordeal two years previously, when she
was 13. But he won his freedom at the appeal court after the prosecution
accepted the girl's testimony was undermined by evidence uncovered from a
computer diary which suggested she had "made it all up".

Mr
Forde later said his time in prison had been "hell".

TEACHER
CLEARED OF RAPE TOO LATE

Graeme Paton - Published: 21 April 2006

A teacher who died in prison after being convicted of raping one of his
pupils has been posthumously cleared by the Court of Appeal.

Molly Gee, 88, who has
been awarded £62,493 by the appeal court

after
battling to clear her son Darryl's name

Darryl Gee was jailed in 2001 despite scant evidence to corroborate his
accuser’s claims, which related to alleged incidents more than a decade
earlier.

The
music teacher, who protested his innocence, died in his cell from an
undiagnosed blood cancer. He had served 18 months of an eight-year
sentence.
This week, campaigners described the case as one of the worst miscarriages
of justice they had seen after the Court of Appeal in London quashed his
conviction.

It
comes as government guidance designed to speed up investigations into
alleged abuse of pupils is introduced in schools. Unions say this will
reduce the risk of innocent teachers being smeared by false allegations.

Chris
Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said: “This is an extreme and
tragic illustration of the consequences of malicious allegations and
underlines the need for these new procedures.”

Mr
Gee’s 88-year-old mother, Molly, awarded £62,493 costs by the court,
said the case should be a warning to other teachers.

“It
all boiled down to one girl’s word against his, and the jury believed
her,” she said. “That’s all it took to send my son to prison and it
has left me very angry and grief stricken. I don’t think anyone should
have to work alone with a child – it is just too easy for an allegation
like this to be made.”

Mr
Gee, a supply teacher who taught brass instruments, was found guilty at
Leeds crown court in January 2001 after being accused of raping and
indecently assaulting a pupil in a Huddersfield school in 1989. He died
aged 55 in August 2002, a month after a second appeal failed.

His
conviction was eventually quashed when his mother alerted the Criminal
Cases Review Commission, which asked a leading psychiatrist to report on
his accuser. The study cast doubt on her mental state. It also emerged
that the girl, now 26, made similar allegations against another man, whose
conviction was quashed earlier this year.

Read more in the TES including the story of
Charlie King. A jury took just half an hour to find him not guilty of
sexually assaulting three of his pupils. So why did it take 13 months for
the case to reach court?

SEX
ATTACK LIAR NAMED BY PEER - 19th
October 2006 by SAM GREENHILL

A
woman with a long history of crying rape who sent an innocent man to jail
was named in Parliament amid calls for a change in the law.

Shannon
Taylor was unmasked by a peer who told the House of Lords her lies had put
father-of-two Warren Blackwell behind bars for more than three years.

Lord
Campbell-Savours

Lord
Campbell-Savours used Parliamentary privilege to expose her identity and
lambast the 'shabby' police investigation that saw Mr Blackwell
imprisoned.

Legal
experts praised his decision to speak out to prevent other men falling
victim to fake sex attack allegations.

Mr
Blackwell, 36, whose loyal wife Tanya never doubted his innocence, was
dramatically cleared at the Appeal Court last month after Miss Taylor's
background as a serial fantasist was exposed by a Criminal Cases Review
Commission investigation.

But
although his name was blackened, anonymity laws meant his accuser's was
automatically protected, and she became known only as Miss A.

Even
the appeal judges wanted to name her - but were powerless to do so - to
warn other blameless members of the public.

The
Daily Mail led calls for her identity to be revealed before she put
another innocent man through torment.

Yesterday,
Lord Campbell-Savours - said to be motivated by 'outrage' at the case -
stood up and publicly did so.

He
asked fellow peers: "Is not the inevitable consequence of the
workings of the law, as currently framed, that we will carry on
imprisoning innocent people like Warren Blackwell, who was falsely accused
by a serial and repeated liar, Shannon Taylor, with a history of false
accusations and multiple identities?

"As
a result of her accusations, he spent three and a half years in prison
following a shabby and inadequate police investigation, and was only
exonerated when the Criminal Cases Review Commission inquiry cleared him
and exposed her history."

The
Labour peer added: "Shouldn't mature accusers who perjure themselves
in rape trials be named and prosecuted for perjury?"

Miss
Taylor's own daughter backed the decision to disclose her name, saying:
"She is a danger and the public needs to be warned. She needs
prosecuting for what she did. She is every man's worst nightmare."

Mr
Blackwell's ordeal began when his accuser, now 38, claimed she had been
seized with a knife outside a village club early on New Year's Day 1999,
taken to an alley and indecently assaulted.

She
later picked him out of an identity parade and a jury found him guilty,
even though there was no forensic evidence against him and he had no
previous convictions.

Eventually,
the case was investigated by the Criminal Cases Review Commission which
found that the woman had made up at least seven other fake allegations of
sexual and physical assault, including against her own father. She
frequently changed her name and police forces did not realise they were
dealing with the same woman.

Her
own mother has described her as "a persistent liar, very manipulative
and a bully" who frequently claimed to have been beaten, sexually
attacked and raped - all of which were untrue. She has a history of mental
illness and self-harm.

The
original investigation by Northamptonshire Police was exposed as shoddy,
with Mr Blackwell's lawyers claiming that normal safeguards and procedures
were completely ignored. He plans to sue.

Yesterday,
a friend of 63-year-old Lord Campbell-Savours explained why he decided to
speak out. He said: "He named her because he was outraged. He doesn't
think it's got anything to do with the issue of rape, he thinks it's an
issue of perjury.

"This
woman made up the story and told lies and he can't see why a person who
has perjured themselves should be protected, irrespective of the type of
offence.

"Sometimes
people have to stick their heads above the parapet in cases where the law
is clearly an ass and needs to be reformed.

"He
thinks the law around anonymity,
particularly where false accusations have been made, needs to be
changed."

Welcoming
the development, Mr Blackwell, from Woodford Halse, Northamptonshire,
said: "It's absolutely fantastic. I didn't think anybody would have
the guts to name her.

"This
woman needs to be stopped. The fact is, she remains free to carry on
crying rape and up till now has been enjoying the full protection of the
law. It's absolutely crazy that she could not be named and shamed, because
innocent men need to be warned to avoid her like the plague.

"Now
I hope she will go on to be prosecuted." But she is unlikely to face
charges for perjury or perverting justice.

Northamptonshire
Police yesterday claimed there was "insufficient evidence",
while Crown Prosecution sources have cited her mental illness as a
barrier.

But
Mr Blackwell's barrister Anne Johnson said: "There is a clear public
interest in her being prosecuted for perjury or the very least wasting
police time.

"It's
fantastic that somebody of authority has finally come out and named this
woman. The issue needs to be aired otherwise nothing will be done."

At
Mr Blackwell's appeal last month, Mr Justice Tugendhat admitted that
similar tragic cases could follow because of the lies of the 'Miss A',
adding that Parliament had not seemed to have considered this possibility
when framing the law. Last night the judge said he did not wish to comment
on yesterday's twist.

In
the 1970s, the Daily Mail campaigned for women in sex cases to be granted
automatic anonymity, to protect genuine victims of genuine crimes.
Although Miss Taylor has now been publicly named, there is nothing to stop
her changing her identity yet again.

Callers
to her most recent address were told by her boyfriend that she no longer
lived there.

Here's
what readers have had to say so far. Why not add your thoughts below?

It
is unfortunate that in my opinion women seem to be able to make
allegations and men are treated as guilty unless proven innocent. This
spills over into family law where this happens all the time. It is time
for laws to be changed and the system to be exposed for what it is. I take
my hat of to the judge for naming this women. It is about time that more
professional people i.e. judges and lawyers started looking at what is
right and wrong instead of either following there own political agenda or
lining their own pockets.

- Lisa Lipscombe, Burlington, Canada

The
sentencing for false accusations of rape should be as harsh, and enforced
as harshly, as rape itself.

The USA also needs to wake up to the many false allegations of rape that
are putting innocent men in jail.

Mr
Justice Tugendhat admitted, however, that similar tragic cases could
follow because of the lies of the woman, Miss A.

"Parliament
does not seem to have contemplated this situation.

"There
appears to be no means of displacing her entitlement to anonymity."

In
the 1970s, the Daily Mail campaigned for women in sex cases to be
granted automatic anonymity, but now there are questions about whether the
law has gone too far.

Warren
Blackwell's nightmare began when Miss A, now 38, claimed she had been
seized with a knife outside a village club early on New Year's Day 1999,
taken to an alley and indecently assaulted.

She
later picked Mr Blackwell out at an identity parade.

There
was no forensic evidence against him and he had no previous convictions.

'She
needs to be stopped'

Yet
Mr Blackwell, from Woodford Halse, Northamptonshire, was found guilty and
spent three years and four months behind bars.

Eventually
the case was referred to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) which
assigned Detective Chief Inspector Steve Glover, to investigate. He
discovered that the woman:
• Has made at least five other fake allegations of sexual and physical
assault to police in three separate forces.
• Was married twice and made false allegations against both husbands -
one of whom was a policeman.
• Once accused her own father of sexual assault, but police concluded
she had made it up.
• Accused a boy of rape when she was a teenager, only for a doctor to
discover she was still a virgin.
• The CCRC concluded that in the case of Mr Blackwell, she had
"lied about the assault and was not attacked at all, her injuries
being self-inflicted".

The
Crown Prosecution Service did not oppose the appeal.

David
Farrell QC, for the Crown, said: "This conviction is unsafe. What has
come out of the woodwork paints a picture of a woman with immense personal
problems with serious difficulties in distinguishing between truth and
lies."

If
this information had been known at the time of the trial, he added,
"this case would not have made it off the ground".

Mr
Blackwell said: "Clearly something has to be done about this woman.
She needs to be stopped. The prosecution say she is psychiatrically
disturbed, but insane people who murder are tried and if found guilty put
away."

Mr
Blackwell, who plans to sue police over his ordeal, will now have his name
removed from the Sex Offender Register.

His
accuser has a history of mental illness and self-harm - once inscribing
the word 'HATE' on her body with scissors.

However,
because she has changed her name at least eight times, and moved between
addresses in at least three counties, it seems police never realised they
were dealing with the same woman.

For
Mr Blackwell, her accusations meant he missed more than three years of
family life. His son Liam, ten, and stepdaughter Holly, 16, were three and
nine when his ordeal began.

His
36-year-old wife said: "I never doubted him for a second. We were
together six years before it happened, and ever since."

48
people have commented on this story so far. Tell the Mail on Sunday what
you think using the links above.

I
think that most right-thinking people would support a change to allow
these people to be identified. It might even have some deterrent effect.

- Gordon Littlewood, Valenciennes, France

When
you name the accused guilty or not you should also name the accuser. If
his photo is published then so should hers be. Let's have things equal
and fair all round.

- Mike, Wadebridge, UK.

This
government does not have the time to waste on changing this law they are
all too busy jostling for the top office job.

- Gordon Myatt, Swansea UK

F.A.C.T.
(Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers)
PO Box 3074
Cardiff CF3 3WZ
Tel: 029 2077 7499
E-mail: info@factuk.org
Website: www.factuk.org
Campaigning organisation and support group which provides help and advice
to falsely accused and wrongly convicted carers and teachers throughout
the UK. The website contains a range of information, leaflets, books and
links.

Guidance
for education staff and volunteers in schools
Website: www.lg-employers.gov.uk/conditions/education/allegations
This website has guidance on: 1) staff facing an allegation of abuse; 2)
preventing 'abuse of trust' for education staff; and 3) the conduct of
education staff working with young people.

If
you have been accused of child abuse by as a result of a 'recovered'
memory during psychotherapy or counselling you might
find the British
False Memory Society website helpful. Similarly if you are a
youth worker and have been falsey accused of child abuse you will find
the FAYL website helpful.

If
you have been wrongly convicted of a crime which you did not commit
you will find the innocence
web site and the innocent
network useful.

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